ADVENTURERS.

When we were children, at our will,

That vanished summer blithe and free,

Dear shipmate! how we loved to float

Thro’ wind and calm, in a little boat,

All alone on the sparkling sea!

One morn, defying storms we sailed

And sang our Credo, you and I—

“Beyond the foam, the surge, the mist,

The sea-fog’s moving amethyst,